Erie

Ah, here we are at last, in the music and happiness capital of the world. What, you ask? Erie, Pa.? The capital of anything--much less the capital of happiness? Yes. Put it this way: Some people might dream of walking up the Clark Gable-Vivien Leigh staircase from the Southern mansion in "Gone With the Wind." Some people might have their breath taken away if they were able to skip along the yellow brick road from "The Wizard of Oz." But for some of us, Erie, Pa., is the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A family vacation turned into tragedy when a mother drowned while trying to rescue her son and his friend in the choppy waters of Lake Erie in western New York, police said. Christen Stefan, 37, swam into the lake in Westfield, New York, on Wednesday to save her 9-year old son, Tyler, and a friend who were riding an inner tube when the wind pushed them into deep waters, the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. The wind and...

There are so many monuments to mediocrity rising into the sky west of Michigan Avenue these days that it is easy to miss bright spots such as Erie on the Park, the gutsy but elegant new condominium tower whose skeletal exterior bears an unmistakable likeness to the John Hancock Center, the X-braced giant called "Big John." This is a bold exercise in bone-beautiful design, and though it is at times brutally off-putting and lacks the mighty Hancock's unsurpassed clarity of form, it is easily superior to the drab...

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Two women are dead and two men missing after their boat apparently struck a submerged reef in Lake Erie during a fishing trip, authorities said on Thursday. Authorities launched a search for the missing boaters after family members said they had failed to check in on Wednesday after a trip out on the lake. One of the women was found early Thursday by a private vessel and a second about noon by a U.S. Coast Guard vessel roughly two miles from the first,...

By Kathy Bergen and John Byrne and Tribune staff reporter | May 30, 2012

GE Transportation, a manufacturer of equipment for the rail, mining and marine industries, will relocate its global headquarters to Chicago from Erie, Pa. The company, a unit of GE, announced the move this morning in a press conference with Mayor Rahm Emanuel. About 50 employees will relocate from Erie later this year after the company selects an office location here. The employees primarily work in support and service functions. The company anticipates the headquarters...

Former DePaul forward Cleveland Melvin was claimed by the Erie BayHawks of the NBA Development League, the team said Wednesday. Melvin, who was leading DePaul in scoring (16.7 points per game) this season, left the school after he was suspended indefinitely for an undisclosed violation of team rules. The BayHawks, who are affiliated with the Knicks, claimed Melvin out of the league's free-agent pool. Melvin will be eligible for the 2014 NBA draft. DePaul, citing federal privacy...

Susan Bell Alvord, 59, of Chicago, formerly of Erie, PA, died Thursday, Sept. 21, 2000 at her residence. She is survived by her father, Vincent Bell and her stepmother, Lily Bell of Melbourne, FL; two sisters, Linda (George) Maines of Erie, PA and Vicki (Pat) Costello of Cincinnati, OH; two nephews, Jay Moehler of Erie, PA, Sean Costello of Los Angeles, CA; one niece, Kelly Costello of Chicago. Friends are invited to attend a Memorial Service at the Unity Church of Chicago, 1925 West Thome Street, in the Rogers Park area...

TORONTO, April 28 (Reuters) - United States Steel Corp has locked out all unionized employees at its Lake Erie works in Canada, the United Steelworkers union said on Sunday. The move, part of a contract dispute, affects nearly 1,000 workers at the Nanticoke, Ontario plant, which produced about 10 percent of U.S. Steel's raw steel output in 2012. It is the third lockout at a former Stelco facility since U.S. Steel acquired the Canadian company in 2007. ...

Amelia C. Leonard, 86, a resident of Arlington Heights for the past four years, died Tuesday in Lexington Healthcare Center, Wheeling. Mrs. Leonard, who was born in Erie, Pa., had retired from Lord's Manufacturing Co. there. She is survived by her son, James; three grandchildren; four great-grandchildren, and one sister. Services will be held Saturday in Erie.

CLEVELAND -- Left wing Brett Sterling scored two goals as the Chicago Wolves rallied from an early deficit to take a 3-2 victory over the Lake Erie Monsters at the Quicken Loan Center. The Wolves (12-9-2-1) won their in a row, marking their first three-game winning since they opened the season with three victories. The Monsters (12-13-1-1) scored first after Wolves center Andrew Ebbett took a stick in Chicago zone. Monsters center Mark Olver then squeezed a shot past Wolves...

By Kathy Bergen and John Byrne and Tribune staff reporter | May 30, 2012

GE Transportation, a manufacturer of equipment for the rail, mining and marine industries, will relocate its global headquarters to Chicago from Erie, Pa. The company, a unit of GE, announced the move this morning in a press conference with Mayor Rahm Emanuel. About 50 employees will relocate from Erie later this year after the company selects an office location here. The employees primarily work in support and service functions. The company anticipates the headquarters...

One could write a compelling history of Chicago just by chronicling the lives touched by the Erie Neighborhood House. For more than 140 years, Erie House, one of the city's oldest settlement houses, has given immigrant families on Chicago's Near Northwest Side a toehold in the American dream. In the early days, it was German and Scandinavian families. Irish, Polish and Italians came later. Over the last 50 years, an influx of Mexican immigrants to that corner of the...

Spencer Machacek didn't score three goals Tuesday night against Lake Erie, but he still earned a hat trick of sorts — the Gordie Howe kind. Machacek scored two goals, picked up an assist and won a first-period fight as the Wolves topped Lake Erie 6-3 before a crowd of 3,727 at Allstate Arena. Nigel Dawes added two goals and an assist and Jared Ross had two assists for the Wolves, who won their third consecutive game — and second in three nights over the Monsters. ...

About 400 employees of the Metropolitan Sanitary District closed part of Erie Street Tuesday for a giant group photo, taken as they moved into the district's new engineering annex, 111 E. Erie St. The photo session, which closed Erie between Rush Street and Michigan Avenue, was staged to bring attention to the district's new annex, which it says was constructed at a "remarkably low" cost to taxpayers because it combines government and private space....

James "Mac" McCammond, beloved husband of Katherine "KT", nee Thayer; loving father of John Eliot. Member of I.A.T.S.E. Local #2. Family will be receiving friends in his honor and memory on Monday Dec. 28, 2009 at theOrigional Rago BrothersFuneral Home, 624 N. Western (at Erie) from 2 to 7 p.m. with a formal memorial service begining at 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sign Guestbook at chicagotribune.com/obituaries . This is a paid death notice.